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This plant is very small in all its parts; the largest leaf is *9 dm. by 
9-5 em. with petiole 1 dm. long ; the petiolules vary from 1°5-2°5 cm., the two 
lateral ones being the shortest and bearing the smallest folioles, generally 
very unequal in size; the largest folioles are +7 cm. by 2 em. with 5-6 
lateral veins. The inflorescence is compound, composed of racemes grouped 
1-4 in the axils of the upper leaves ; the flowering racemes are +9 cm. by 
4 cm. with peduncles 2-3 em. long, the umbels are +1 cm. across and 
consist of 9-10 flowers, on pedicels +4 mm. long, each subtended by a 
minute bract. The fruiting racemes (immature) are 11 cm. long and 
chocolate-brown in colour when dried. Flowers green. Calyx 1°5 mm. by 
1:7 mm. Petals angular acute, 2 mm. long. Stamens 1°5 mm. long, with 
ovate anthers ‘7 mm. long. Style +°5 mm. long. Fruit 5-ribbed with 
conical disc 3 mm. long ; persistent style 1 mm. long. _ 
The elongated style with five stigmatic lobes places this plant in the 
Agalma group. It is very closely allied to S. monticola Ridl., collected on 
Mt. Carstensz by Kloss, but differs in the larger Jeaves with much longer 
petioles and petiolules, the longer obtuse folioles, much narrowed into the 
petiolules, and in being much more sparsely squamulose. 
SHEFFLERA (HUSHEFFLERA) ANGIENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Arbor parva. Folia ampla, digitata, longe petiolata, petiolo glabro, vagina 
lata, in stipulam lanceolatam loage producto, squamulis setosis densissime obtecta ; 
foliola 15, apice petioli verticillata, breviter petiolata, oblonga, basi obtusa, apice 
cuspidata vel obtusa, integerrima, coriacea, glabra. Panieula terminalis, rami 
pedunculati, florum capitula secus ramos panicule racemosa, flores pedicellati, 
rhachis furfuracea. Calyx margine vix distinctus. Corolla et stamina non visa. 
Discus medio conicus, margine undulatus. Ovarium 5-loculare, semisuperum. 
Styli in columnam brevem connati, stigmatibus sessilibus. Bacca sessilis, 5-costata, 
apice convexa. 
Hab, Arfak Mts., Angi lakes, edge of forest by 2 lake, 7000’. FI., 
Fr. (yg.). 5950. 
A small tree with the habit of Sheffera actinophylla (F. Muell.) Harms. 
In the specimen leaf the petiole, including vagina, is 2-4 dm. long, the 
stipules being 2. cm. by 6 mm., very coriaceous in texture ; the petiolules 
are comparatively thick and short, 1-5-3 em. long; folioles vary from. 
7 cem—l'7 dm. by 2°5-4°5 em., all are more or less sharply cuspidate, though 
the cusp varies in length and may even not be developed ; when dried the 
leaves are chocolate-brown in colour, with smooth upper surface, the lower 
being light brown and rugulose, with the veins showing faintly. The 
branches and the inflorescence are each 5°4 dm. by 3°5 cm., the small 
umbeis on peduncles +1 em. long consist of 10-12 flowers, on pedicels 
3°) mm. long, non-articulated, with minute scales almost forming little 
involucres at the base, 1 mm. long: these scales increase in size in fruit to 
2 mm. long, as does also the furfuraceous covering of the rhachis. The 
